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Gr 3–7—Luncia Gamzer (who later changed her name to Ruth) was five years old when Nazi soldiers invaded Poland. This event marked the beginning of the mass genocide of the more than 200,000 Polish Jews living in the city of Lvov. Over the next several years, Gamzer hid in a burlap sack in a basement, spent 12 hours a day stuffed into a wooden "coffin," and hid under the porch while her grandmother, uncle, and cousins were forcibly deported. After the city was liberated by Soviets in 1944, she and her family migrated west across Europe and ev...Log In or Sign Up to Read More